August 28th, 2003, 08:33 PM
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DNS/BIND Guru
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: OH, USA
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They don't work together. They work separately. But here's the steps as they occur:
1) joe types "www.example.com" into Internet Explorer and hits enter
2) Internet Explorer asks windows to resolve "www.example.com" into an IP address
3) windows asks one of your configured caching dns servers (usually given to you by your ISP) to resolve "www.example.com" for it.
4) The caching DNS server asks the root dns servers who hosts "www.example.com".
5) The root dns servers tell the caching dns server the host dns servers for "www.example.com".
6) The caching dns server asks the host dns servers the IP address for "www.example.com".
7) The host dns servers tells the caching dns server the IP address for "www.example.com".
8) The caching dns server tells windows the IP address for "www.example.com"
9) Windows tells Internet Explorer the IP address for "www.example.com"
10) Internet Explorer connects to the webserver IP address for "www.example.com" and tells the webserver that it is connecting to "www.example.com".
11) The webserver (Apache) finds the configured website matching "www.example.com" and returns the appropriate file to Internet Explore for displaying.
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